"never take a check"
They'll stick to that for as long as they can because economics confuses and turns people off …learn the language they use and it's easily demystified
Inflation well into the double digits (if you shop you know-inflation in the things you need..deflation in the things you don't) and the wages including the myth of productivity they always trot out when it suits them and has never kept pace-except a few rare exceptions and never on a large scale-tech and housing bubble good examples of spilling over and pumping wages